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Munich authorities are ramping up security precautions for this year's Oktoberfest after a deadly shooting rampage at a city mall this summer and two attacks claimed by the Islamic State group left Germans on edge.

Russia is urging Syrian rebels to separate themselves from 'terrorists' to ensure that the Russia-U.S.-brokered cease-fire continues to hold in Syria, where a relative calm has prevailed since the truce went into effect two days ago.

India and Afghanistan have called for an end to all sponsorship, support and sanctuaries to militants, including those who have committed violence in the two countries.

Libya's state oil company says it is prepared to quickly resume crude exports from three key terminals seized this week by forces loyal to a powerful general.

Lawmakers in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan have adopted amendments to the country's constitution, paving the way for a life-long presidency for the incumbent leader.

The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local): 11:25 a.m.

For centuries, the sleepy valley nestled in the Indian Himalayas remained a hidden Buddhist enclave forbidden to outsiders.

A key British parliamentary committee has said former Prime Minister David Cameron's military intervention in Libya was misguided and helped spur the rise of Islamic extremism there.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says solidarity cannot be imposed on EU member countries amid vehement opposition in some states to his refugee quota scheme.

The chief of the European Union's executive arm says the bloc's economic and cultural influence isn't enough to safeguard its place in today's uncertain world, and it must do more in the defense field, starting with creation of an EU military headquarters and working toward a common military force.

The first democratically elected president of the Maldives says from exile in Britain that he has an agreement with the country's former strongman to counter the sitting president, who is increasing his stranglehold on power.

Rangers in South Africa's biggest wildlife park are killing about 350 hippos and buffalos in an attempt to relieve the impact of a severe drought.

The head of the European Union's executive says that the bloc still needs more united action to move forward in the face of widespread opposition to more centralized powers for the bloc.

Pope Francis has called the French priest who was killed by Islamic State militants while celebrating Mass a martyr and urged all people of faith to denounce killing in the name of God as "satanic." Francis celebrated a morning Mass on Wednesday in memory of the Rev. Jacques Hamel.

Police in Mongolia have arrested a man suspected of killing a British tourist in a rare case of violent crime in the landlocked Asian nation.

Indonesian police say a senior figure from the East Indonesia Mujahideen militant group has been captured and one of the group's members killed in a joint operation with the military.

For 40 years, army Gen. Javier Florez battled the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

A shallow, 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia's second-largest city of Medellin on Tuesday night in the country's biggest tremor in over a year.

A shallow, 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled residents of Colombia's second-largest city of Medellin on Tuesday night in the country's biggest tremor in over a year.

The four original nations of South America's Mercosur trading bloc announced Tuesday that they are giving Venezuela until Dec. 1 to comply with its commitments when it joined in 2012 that it would comply with all the group's requirements.